Crazy EyesMovie Reviews



Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 60
    Time Out New York |

    Those willing to indulge regardless will find a surprisingly satisfying character study, woozily shot and elliptically cut to mimic booze-filled blackouts. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety |

    These two non-lovers have real chemistry, and it's hard not to be intoxicated by the strange cocktail of watching them together, even as the story appears to be going nowhere. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    The resulting film has the integrity and the ugliness of the truth. It's not true because it's ugly; no, it's ugly because it's true. Read full review

  • 40
    Village Voice | Nick Pinkerton

    The exuberant editing and puke-into-the-camera edginess indicate a film more interested in boasting of hell-raising than in exorcising it. Read full review

  • 40
    Los Angeles Times | Robert Abele

    Director/co-writer Adam Sherman's Bukowski-lite character study is one of those exercises in masculine self-pity and glib misogyny that frustrates because of its shortsightedness. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Post |

    Unpleasant as it is, you can't exactly call Sherman's perspective misogynistic, if only because the protagonist hates himself every bit as much. Read full review

  • 35
    Movieline |

    Crazy Eyes is the third directorial effort from Adam Sherman, and is, like his 2010 "Happiness Runs," based on his own personal experiences, suggesting he either has a staggering sense of self-laceration or a just as noteworthy lack of awareness about audience empathy. Read full review

  • 20
    New York Daily News | Joe Neumaier

    This slovenly, self-indulgent riff on Charles Bukowski-like fringe-livers has all of the naked harshness of Bukowski with none of the poetry. At least Haas gives it a good shot. Read full review

  • 16
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    An appreciation that the pain is personal doesn't compensate for the picture's self-absorbed need to alienate. Read full review

  • 12
    Slant Magazine | Andrew Schenker

    While the male characters are certainly not presented as models of enlightened behavior, their antics and crises are indulged in a manner not extended to their female counterparts. Read full review

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